Famous Quotes

Quotes by William

• The country remains dependent on oil. But as we are now learning, oil is becoming increasingly scarce.
• The course of true love never did run smooth.
• The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.
• The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
• The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satan's prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth.
• The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal the good one really does.
• The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.
• The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church.
• The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.
• The downfall of the industry seems to actually be good for art. I think the industry will find their way once the focus shifts from its greed-based origins, downsizes, and begins to support creative visions that speak to our times and shifting ideals.
• The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
• The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.
• The enemies of freedom do not argue they shout and they shoot.
• The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.
• The EU is not a country and it's not going to become a country, in my view, now or ever in the future. It is a group of countries working together.
• The evil that men do lives after them the good is oft interred with their bones.
• The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God.
• The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.
• The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
• The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God.
• The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.
• The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
• The first one, obviously, was walking into my office at eight o'clock in the morning on Wednesday, and being told there was a telephone call saying that there was an incident at Three Mile Island, and that it had shut down and that beyond that we didn't know.
• The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.
• The first work of the director is to set a mood so that the actor's work can take place, so that the actor can create. And in order to do that, you have to communicate, communicate with the actors. And direction is about communication on all levels.
• The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.
• The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
• The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.
• The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.
• The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
• The future is today.
• The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
• The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.
• The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.
• The golden age is before us, not behind us.
• The good physician treats the disease the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
• The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.
• The great hope of society is in individual character.
• The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
• The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.